iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/16/mini-review-aurora-feint-for-iphoneipod-touch/

This is one of the best puzzle games I've played in a while. The best part is the tilting portion; SO FUCKING COOL.

They're adding all of these RPGish elements later on involving equipable power-ups that can be levelled as you play the game. so so so great

Can't believe this thing is still free!

But where's it leading to Dan? I'm playing it a lot too, but I don't really know why. I've maxed out a few of the skills or whatever, but they don't seem to make much difference to anything. I've tried adding friends, but it can't find any for me. And the game itself is cute, but not really challenging enough to hold my interest in itself. I think it's really just their promise that it's the first part of what will everntually be some big fancy MMO which is keeping me playing it.

Anyway. Monkey Ball is pretty ace, although the tilt thing is a bit touchy, sometimes it feels hypersensitive but others it needs to be tilted so far that I can't even see the screen. Liking it a lot despite that though.

Tap Tap Revenge is a nice little DDR clone, enjoy it when I'm playing it but definitely don't feel compelled to go back to it that often.

Just tried the Crash Bandicoot kart game on someone else's phone, framerate is shocking but the control feels nice enough to make up for that. Doubt I'll fork out for it though.

The freebie 3d mahjong is crud. As is the tiltable maze game.

Also, if you've ever played any Puzzle Quest, Aurora Feint starts to feel like a HUGE ripoff.

Never played Puzzle Quest.

I think the fact that you're still playing it even though you're kind of fed up with it says a lot for how well they've implemented the gameplay for this thing.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates that mah jongg game!

the fact that you're still playing it even though you're kind of fed up with it says a lot for how well they've implemented the gameplay

Yeah, definitely. It just feels right.

It could do with a bugfix too though. Some bits of text seem to hang off the side of my screen in some of the submenus, and given that those bits of text explain what the level ups actually do, I suspect they're probably pretty important.

no Peggle, no peace

Still as addicted to Bejeweled as I was on Nokia 6600 years ago

Aurora Feint is like Bejeweled + even more crack

ah that sounds like puzzle quest, exactly.

ok must play Puzzle Quest

aurora feint = pure crack.

it's just like bejeweled + leveling + competition anxiety of MMORPG

why is there no brain training for iphone

;_;

jesus christ

http://stuffetc.de/AF/46865.jpg

Just started playing Trism, seems like lots of fun.

lol Aurora Feint was removed from the Apple store over spyware concerns

:O

http://gizmodo.com/5026065/sega-says-the-iphone-is-as-powerful-as-the-dreamcast

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Aurora+Feint:+The+Beginning/news.asp?c=8000

Doesn't sound all that bad really.

Oh, hold on...

http://gizmodo.com/5028459/aurora-feint-iphone-app-delisted-for-lousy-security-practices

Yeah, if they're failing to encrypt it then maybe is does sound that bad.

yeah that's kind of a massive "oops"

Update dropped this morning, so the security thing is fixed now. Haven't tried it yet, but apparently there are gameplay updates too.

So Dan, if we want to clan up in this thing we need to have each other's details in our contact lists, right? We should exchange numbers!

The name of that game is ridiculously porn star-y.

yes to all these number exchanges

djperry at g mail dot com

So Dan, if we want to clan up in this thing we need to have each other's details in our contact lists, right? We should exchange numbers!

-- JimD, Friday, July 25, 2008 5:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

slick pick-up line dude.

how's the number list exchange work?

Kinda doesn't. I was sniffing round their forums the other day though, and got the impression it maybe hasn't been properly implemented yet.

Has anybody seen Frotz? http://code.google.com/p/iphonefrotz/

Hey Aurora Feint, you know that other game you shamelessly plagiarised? Well, it's coming.

Anyone played anything else decent of late? I like Imangi a lot, Ashpalt 4 is suprisingly diverting, (although frame rate issues kill it really), Spore Origins was pretty disappointing. And oh, I tried Billy Frontier. Utter shite.

Oh, er, it wasn't me, it was Dan.

Still, yeah, it exists already.

A friend of mine "plays" Aurora Feint by shaking his iPhone, then quickly swiping his finger back and forth across the screen. He scores considerably higher than I do. ;_;

<3 fieldrunners

<3 Trism

My friend showed me the ocarina app, which isn't a game, but I thought it was pretty cool.

So that mysterious "A NEW METAL GEAR IS...":

http://www.konami-digital-entertainment.co.jp/en/news/release/2008/1217/index.html

Er, "NEXT" rather.

My favourite iPhone/iTouch game is Virtual Pool, but I'm keen to see this Katamari conversion I saw on some website.

Rolando coming tomorrow

who's he?

is anybody not cool w/me changing the name of this thread to add /iPod Touch in between iPhone and Games

HOW DARE YOU SIR

Do it (do it now!).

anyone played the new one by the dude who did gran turismo, space deadbeef?

I wanted to until I found out it was a scrolling shooter.

THIS is Rolando

ipod Tooch!

that's nasty

Playing Rolando now. Not sure how long i'll stick with it, but it's a step forward in terms of design, music & presentation. LocoRoco with cartoon Florida oranges or not, it's still fun.

entire world seems to agree that iphone katamari is a sin against god and capitalism

i liked how one wired blog yesterday had a post that was all "THIS IS BROKEN GARBAGE" (the games one) and the gadget one was like "THIS IS SIMPLY WONDERFUL!"

12 hours and sobering up later, Rolando still fun

I read glowing reviews of them and treasure the memory of the books - they're on my wishlist.

Yes. They're great, like 80 Days but not as hyped. They're a lot more fun if you discipline yourself not to use the rewind option, IMO. Books: better with permadeath!

I played the first Sorcery and liked it.

Thanks! £5 spent

Love 'em. Play through them in order: each game gives you a code you can use to portage yr. inventory from one game to the next.

Soda Dungeon update!

OK so the only two bosses with a twist are the ones I already "complained" about up above - with sufficient buffs your party will walk through the entire rest of the game, including the "final" boss, on autoplay. Autoplay mode does not stop for dialogue boxes, it does not stop for treasure selection screens, it does not stop to make you choose between divergent paths, it'll just wait a little bit and then keep going. I have no idea what it's like to fight the 9th dungeon boss, or the giant extra-dimensional alien at the "end," other than a deep and abiding hunch that they are 1) the dumbest 2) easily crushed by the repeated application of the technique known as "tapping"

Now I'm in the WARRIOR DIMENSION and apparently there is some other stuff you can do, like collect bottle caps and shit? At this point though my relic buffs are so intense that five junkies in their underwear with a single stool and broken bottle among them can get all the way to level 240-something in the Lair of Despair before something finally wipes them out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Dc-J_mD7c

I really wish they would add more levels to Mario Run. It's a fun game but there are hardly any levels, and it gets pretty dull pretty fast. How expensive could it really be for Nintendo just to release a few more levels? I feel they they really weren't listening to people here

And now Nintento has updated the game, changing around a bunch of stuff and adding some things. But still no new levels.

i really hate them for the fact that you need to be connected to play this game. i hadn't realised that when buying it before going on a long plane ride, imagine my disappointment on board.

yeah. designed to cut down on piracy, I'm sure, but it doesn't work well. It sometimes glitches after I finish a level and won't save my progress. Also how hard is it to offer an online mode?

Yeah, I finally finished everything, I have 9999 toads, and I'd love some new levels. I'd even pay another $5 or something.

Soda Dungeon has at least 4,697 levels! No online mode for some reason

I've got Realm Grinder lined up next. I'm going to get to the bottom of this "idle RPG" phenomenon.

21,802 on Pac-Man 256

*drops mic*

this is how michael jordan must have felt when he first retired in 1993

what game will be your baseball?

Possibly the new version of MLB the show, which I'm terrible at. Maybe there's a minor league mode where I can be appropriately terrible.

These Sorcery games are top fun for sure. First one is a bit short for £5 but it ticks up from there quickly

Stagehand is maddening.

freeways u guys. its so good

new thread is here dude

Thread for iOS games 2017-2023: shame, loathing and recommendations

For all you super hexagon junkies out there:
https://tocogames.itch.io/infinitepizza
unfortunately windows only

Townscaper

More of a beautiful toy than an actual game. Recommended.

ooooh did not know there was an iphone version. insta-buy

sold me

I have been playing star battle go (ie. the New York Times Two No Touch game) a genuinely sickening amount this month

Lol I have knocked out about 150 easy puzzles. I still don’t quite get the hard ones

I’m on expert! Medium wasn’t too bad, you just have to be fastidious/obsessive and taking a break helps if you’re stuck. The Experts are similar to Medium but at some point you have to dive in and start guessing several moves ahead… fortunately the undo button makes this (slightly) less existentially terrifying. Medium is probably a bit more fun - I feel more rewarded by slow deduction work than “planning out a quadrillion moves ahead” work

Wow have I ever become addicted to this. I don’t have a “medium” though (unless I missed an IAP) - just easy and hard.

Yes, I meant easy hard and expert. That’s on the iOS version of star battle go.

Back in IOS after 5 years on Android and the only thing I’m missing so far is a decent simple Mahjong game. Do any of you have recommendations? Looking for something with a timer for ADHD hyper focus tapathons ideally

Townscaper

More of a beautiful toy than an actual game. Recommended.

― lukas, Thursday, October 21, 2021 9:51 AM (one month ago)

Playing this in a browser and it is honestly easier and more fun with the hover preview telling you where you're about to build.

I wonder if iPhone / iPad will ever get something like that?

http://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/

agreed - press should be hover and release to place it

i wanted this to have more complexity and gamishness to it.

let go

High Rise is great plane fodder. I wish more iOS games worked without wifi.

i need y’all to watch this ad for a game i just got served on instagram pic.twitter.com/ywcywCJsQd

— helen (@helen) December 9, 2021

I am way too much of a sucker for F2P season pass mechanics.
Marvel Snap is pretty fun, gotta say

I like Marvel Snap but it doesn't grab me like Marvel Puzzle Quest did. I like the idea that you can only buy cosmetic improvements to your cards in theory, but I'm not super motivated to make my cards shinier. I like the announcement of the upgrade of a card (THREE DEEEEE) more than the upgrade itself.

the fancier/more expensive they get, the more bauble-y

the upgrades are really just to make the feedback loop going, where you get more cards. but at the certain point (probably around lvl 250?) you start being resource-constrained. thankfully the game is still very playable by that point, you should have a ton of cards and possible decks

still playing Snap. i played constantly the past week to go from rank 60 to 65 and back to 59, worse than i started for the season

filled for hatred for myself and life in general, why do i do this to myself

maybe best to break for awhile?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlIWVv79_OQ

netflix has surprisingly been pretty good in this space

Trying to redownload the desktop but can't locate the link

Nevermind. This is the wrong thread. Right thread is over here of course: Zing: A (beta) ILX client for Macs

I remembered the key word "beta."